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Re: Suggested press release in reaction to RHAT dropping sparc and alpha



* Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> [2003-01-05 10:47]:
> And I can think of at least one person from a company buildig
> Debian-related products who had to wait half a year until the DAM came
> around to announce his conclusion that the AM messed up the machine
> policy acceptance of the NM. A reasonably big company with reasonably
> pointy haired bosses would have announced a strategic partnership with
> RedHat and ditched Debian support after more than a few weeks wait.

I'm sure working out a "strategic partnership" with any of the big
vendors takes quite a while to work out.  You don't simply announce it
out of the blue... Also, everything Red Hat can give you in a
"strategic partnership", you get for free with Debian without being a
DD.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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